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Windows 7: Directory with MRT.exe on my data disk ?!

Hi,
I have directories like "a85c9eb53ab66e0034" or "de23a7d6618087e5efd793650af6ed" which are all the time created on my data partition. Inside is a file called mrt.exe which after a quick googeling seems to belong Windows.

How can I stop those annoying directories appearing on my data partition ?

Hi,
this is getting annoying. I reinstalled windows 7 but those 3 folders are still on my data disk and I cannot delete them ! How can I get rid of those ? I dont want Windows to write anything on my data disk.

The only solution I see is to boot to live Linux and delete them from there. But is windows really unable to do this ?? fail ...

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